Friendship Baptist Church

Friendship Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lima, OH 45801. It is one of 150 churches in Lima, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.

Lima, OH, 45801

Friendship Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around Friendship Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 53.5% (38.0–68.9%)
  • Obesity: 49.3%
  • Social Isolation: 40.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.0% (25.6–44.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 34.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
  • Diabetes: 20.2%
  • Depression: 30.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
  • Unemployment: 8.5% (2.4–14.7%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Lima city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 759 residents.

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